Day May 13, 2007

Organic beekeepers report zero losses

“I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list,” said Sharon Labchuck. “The problem with the big commercial guys…

Getting desperate

An apparently serious op-ed in today’s Hartford Courant says, let’s solve the troop shortage in the military by recruiting out of prisons, because, y’know, the inmates are just sitting around doing nothing anyway. I’m guessing the Pentagon, even with their…

The Ft. Dix Six

The organic emergence of terrorist groups, whose only connection to al Qaeda is through the media, shouldn’t come as a surprise. We will see this again and again. One reason is that in open source warfare, the barriers to entry…

Subprime contagion spreads

Lending Tree just laid off 20% of its workers with a company spokesperson saying the subprime correction has now spread to all categories of loans. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago the talking heads were saying the contagion wouldn’t…